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The Unit of Study

The ITO

Externalities of Living Systems

Operational definitions are possible only by careful examination of empirical activity.

Activity Space/Time

Resource Access

Process Descriptors

Can be used to organize empirical observation of system activities.

Scale

Activity

Conflict

Wealth

Responsive

Actant Perspective Dimensions Possible intervention point for communication design.

Time

Space

Wealth

Risk

Stress

Actant Perspective Measures

Explicit/Implict - Degreee to which the perspective is visible to the actant, and therefore open to symbolic manipulation.

Proximate Actant Variables Possible intervention point for communication design.

Proximate Rewards

Proximate Constraints

Input

Output

Process Intervention Categories Possible intervention goals for communication design.

The hypothesis is that process indicators can be defined to measure changes in system outcomes. Once measurable they can be managed to process outcome indicators.

Cycle time

Transparency

Process Definitions

Process Feedback

Trust Based Networks

Process Outcome Indicators

Categories that can be used to judge the state of systems.

Growth

Health

Resilience

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